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THE SOURCES OF IMPACT ON FIRST-GENERATION LATINO COLLEGE STUDENTS’ IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT: FROM THE STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE
by
William Paul Harrington
_______________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
May 2009
Copyright 2009 William Paul Harrington
Object Description
| Title | The sources of impact on first-generation Latino college students' identity development: from the students' perspective |
| Author | Harrington, William Paul, Jr. |
| Author email | pharrington@bishopdiego.org; wharring@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-01-16 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-03-12 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Goodyear, Rodney |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Tuitt, Donahue Stowe, Kathy |
| Abstract | Despite the growing number of First-Generation Latino undergraduates enrolled at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), the effect of their college experiences on the development of identity in this subgroup of students has limited studies.; This two-phase, mixed methods study examined (a) the sources of impact that first-generation Latino undergraduate students perceived to have affected their personal identity development and (b) how they conceptually organized these experiences. Through a purposeful sampling strategy, 89 Latino undergraduates at LMU participated in the first phase of the study by completing the College Years Experience Questionnaire (CYEQ). Using a variant of Flangan’s (1954) Critical Incident Technique, the CYEQ asked participants to reflect on their experience as a college student and report experiences that had affected their sense of who they are. A team of three doctoral students identified 13 categories of impact in the incidents. In Phase Two, the 13 identified categories of experience were then assigned similarity ratings by a small sample of study participants.; Using multidimensional scaling (MDS), a two-dimensional concept map was created from Phase Two data to illustrate how these undergraduates organized the experiences. The dimension weights were used to plot the coordinates of the 13 themes and the dimensions were named Validation through Change versus Validation through Relationships and Validation through Achievement versus Validation through Social Organizations. Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) was used to define a three cluster solution that illustrated how the themes were qualitatively different. The raters named the three clusters to describe the types of themes contained in each cluster.; The 13 themes that emerged during the analysis of Phase One data were associated with key factors that theory and prior research identified as influencing personal identity development. The resulting concept map displayed in graphic form how these first-generation Latino undergraduates conceptually organized their understanding of the impact of college on their identity development. Limitations of the study, suggestions for further research, and implications for college faculty, staff, and administration is delineated. |
| Keyword | Latino; first-generation; impacts; identity; development; identity development; service; college; undergraduate; college experiences |
| Geographic subject | educational facilities: Loyola Marymount University |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2025 |
| Rights | Harrington, William Paul, Jr. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Harrington-2648 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Harrington-2648.pdf |
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| Full text | THE SOURCES OF IMPACT ON FIRST-GENERATION LATINO COLLEGE STUDENTS’ IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT: FROM THE STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE by William Paul Harrington _______________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2009 Copyright 2009 William Paul Harrington |
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